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This list of county courthouses in Illinois provides information about each current Illinois county courthouse: name, photograph, city, construction year, and further comments. Each of the 102 county governments in the U.S. state of Illinois operates out of a building or complex of buildings known as the county's courthouse .
The Montgomery County Courthouse, located in Courthouse Square in Hillsboro, is the county courthouse serving Montgomery County, Illinois.While the courthouse was originally built in 1833–35, it did not attain its current form until an extensive remodeling in 1868–71.
An independent position of Cook County recorder of deeds was re-created in December 1872. [2] On November 8, 2016, Cook County voters approved a binding referendum to eliminate the office, merging its functions into the purview of the Cook County Clerk. [3] The office formally ceased to exist on December 7, 2020. [4]
The McDonough County Courthouse is located in the McDonough County city of Macomb, in the U.S. state of Illinois.The courthouse was constructed in 1871. Architect Elijah E. Myers designed the building in the Second Empire style; the courthouse is one of the few remaining Second Empire buildings in the United States.
Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
Henderson County was created out of Warren County in April 1841 by a law that designated also Oquawka the county seat, [1]: 865 and one of the first acts of the original county commission was to accept from commissioner Alexis Phelps a donation of land for county business. [2] (Phelps and others had reserved land for this purpose five years ...
The clerk of courts office keeps records for the common pleas, municipal, appeals and domestic relations courts. The juvenile and probate courts, which have the same judge, have their own clerk.
The DeKalb County Circuit Court falls under the Illinois 16th Judicial Circuit, along with the circuit courts in Kendall and Kane Counties. Through its 100-year history prominent criminal trials and other events have occurred at the courthouse. [4] One of the earliest notable cases in the DeKalb County Circuit Court was the murder trial of ...